A composting apparatus having a composting receptacle that is adapted to hold biodegradable matter until the matter turns into compost in the receptacle, the composting receptacle having at least one aperture through which the biodegradable matter is able to be either inserted into or removed from the composting receptacle, the composting receptacle adapted to rotate about an axis of rotation.

The present invention relates to a self-deodorizing composting system, comprising an outer membrane, an inner membrane, an air-ribbed cage and a deodorizing base, wherein two deodorizing bases are provided; the outer membrane and the inner membrane are held by the air-ribbed cage, with both ends of the outer membrane and the inner membrane respectively fixed to the two deodorizing bases, whereby a closed space is formed between the outer membrane and the inner membrane; the inner side of the inner membrane is used for placing the composting piles, with the malodor and water vapor generated from the composting piles entering into the closed space formed between the outer membrane and the inner membrane through the inner membrane, so that the water vapor is condensed into the water in the closed space, and the malodor molecules are absorbed and dissolved into the condensed water, thus forming the waste water which falls along the inner side of the outer membrane and the outer side of the inner membrane to the bottom of the deodorizing bases and is discharged from the deodorizing base. Comparing with the prior art, the system in the present invention has a simple and detachable structure, and can isolate and remove the malodor and the water vapor generated when the biomass waste is composted.

An assemblable appliance and method of recycling organic waste into biogas and liquid fertilizer, implementing essentially anaerobic digestion processes, is described. The assemblable appliance includes: a pliant structured exoskeletal envelope, pliable collapsible anaerobic digester and gas tank. A compact kit-of-parts for assembling the aforementioned appliance and respective method using the aforementioned appliance for recycling organic waste into biogas and liquid fertilizer are described.

A composting bin for breaking down organic material includes a container having an interior and an opening. The interior includes a plurality of regions, including a first region and a second region. The first region and the second region are configured to support decomposable organic material. In operation, a user positions decomposable organic material in, for example, the first region. The user then provides a composting animal in the first region. The user covers the composting bin to inhibit light from entering the composting bin. Upon completion of the composting process, the user causes the composting animal to move from the first region to the second region. The user causes the composting animal to move from the first region to the second region by allowing light to enter the first region, and/or providing food in the second region while denying food in the first region.

A composting facility includes: a floor for receiving compostable material thereon, wherein the floor is constructed above-grade; a dovetail extending from the floor to allow ingress of a vehicle from a grade level to the floor; one or more channels defined within the floor and extending through the dovetail; a covering extending over the one or more channels to maintain the compostable material away from the channel, the covering defining at least one aperture extending from above the covering into the one or more channels for allowing flowthrough of gases; and an air source for providing air through the channels to provide cooling characteristics to the compostable material or oxygen to aid an aerobic process associated with composting. In operation, liquids draining from the composting material pass through the at least one aperture into the channel and out through a portion of the channel extending through the dovetail.

A process for producing a commercial soil additive comprises mixing a compost composition with elementary (raw) sulphur to form a mixed material and turning the mixed material until it is substantially homogenous and until there is microbial oxidation of elementary sulphur therein to at least one sulphate.

An exemplary solid waste treatment system can be provided which can include a storage device, an intelligent aerobic fermentation treatment device, a retaining wall-type fermentation area, and an aeration platform. The intelligent aerobic fermentation treatment device can include a traveling trolley, a lifting mechanism, a material pick-and-place mechanism, and a traveling bridge linearly moving in a direction away from the storage device towards the retaining wall-type fermentation area. The aeration platform can be arranged at the bottom of the retaining wall-type fermentation area. The traveling trolley linearly can move on the traveling bridge in a direction perpendicular to the direction away from the storage device towards the retaining wall-type fermentation area. The lifting mechanism can be mounted on the traveling trolley. The material pick-and-place mechanism can be suspended on the lifting mechanism to be raised and lowered in step with the raising and lowering of the lifting mechanism.

An exemplary solid waste treatment system can be provided which can include a storage device, an intelligent aerobic fermentation treatment device, a retaining wall-type fermentation area, and an aeration platform. The intelligent aerobic fermentation treatment device can include a traveling trolley, a lifting mechanism, a material pick-and-place mechanism, and a traveling bridge linearly moving in a direction away from the storage device towards the retaining wall-type fermentation area. The aeration platform can be arranged at the bottom of the retaining wall-type fermentation area. The traveling trolley linearly can move on the traveling bridge in a direction perpendicular to the direction away from the storage device towards the retaining wall-type fermentation area. The lifting mechanism can be mounted on the traveling trolley. The material pick-and-place mechanism can be suspended on the lifting mechanism to be raised and lowered in step with the raising and lowering of the lifting mechanism.

An inclined reactor of bottom gas-inlet type for aerobic fermentation and a method for aerobic fermentation are provided, a fermenter is provided with a circular inner tank, end covers and a jacket; an airtight fermentation space is formed in the fermenter by the inner tank, an upper end cover and a lower end cover; a feed opening and an exhaust outlet are arranged at an upper part of the fermenter, and a discharge opening is arranged at a lower part of the lower end cover of the fermenter; a length of the fermenter is greater than or equal to a diameter of the fermenter, the fermenter is fixed on a base having a height difference and is hence in an inclined state; an energy-saving stirrer is mounted in the fermenter, and the energy-saving stirrer is formed by connecting several groups of tangential plates or a spiral combination of tangential plates, a radial rod, a stirring rod and a stirring shaft; several groups of air chambers are arranged at an external wall at the bottom of the inner tank of the fermenter, the air chambers are arranged inside the jacket, several aeration nozzles are defined on an inner side of each air chamber, and the aeration nozzles are close to the inner tank.

A facility for the recycling of biomaterial with a fermentation stage, whereby the fermentation stage has a fermentation chamber for the production of biogas through anaerobic fermentation of the biomaterial, and with a hygiene stage that is positioned downstream from the fermentation stage, whereby the hygiene stage has a hygienization chamber for the reception and the thermal hygienization of biomaterial discharged from the fermentation stage. A process for the recycling of biomaterial by zymosis is also provided, whereby biogas is produced in a fermentation stage through anaerobic fermentation of the biomaterial, whereby the biomaterial is, after flowing through the fermentation stage, conveyed to a hygiene stage in which the biomaterial thermal is hygienized, and whereby the biomaterial is, after flowing through the hygiene stage, made available as recyclable agricultural, hygienized fermentation residue.